Apart from Europe and California (thank you both for your early service) nearly every country that has adopted renewables has done so for energy access or energy security. While the Israeli-USA Iran war may still turn out to be an existential event to the world economy if it can be navigated […]

Peak have a really good story on #BESS and will hopefully get their scaling right. Passive sodium-ion BESS will be a key tech over the next few years. https://www.ess-news.com/2026/03/12/peak-energy-rwe-to-deploy-first-sodium-ion-battery-in-miso/ #batteries #energy #energytransition

Energy Empire: Why the War in Iran Is Speeding Up the Clean Energy Transition Really interesting analysis of the longer term geopolitical impacts around energy security of the US actions in Venezuela and Iran. Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO4224353920.mp3 #energy

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/ Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't […]

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/02/25/30-gwh-100-hour-duration-google-to-deploy-worlds-largest-iron-air-battery-for-minnesota-data-center/ Form needs these deals to scale. Hopefully they will get Iron air firmly on the map for LDES. #bess #batteries #energy #energytransition

Maybe climate diplomacy has been weakened by the new geopolitics. But the new geopolitics also looks like it will split between petrostates and clean tech states. If you’re a small-ish European country with climate-conscious neighbours and dwindling fossil fuel reserves, this shd be an easy choice

I can state quite objectively that "The Detectorists" and now "Small Prophets" are the best television of the past 20 years or so. If you can 'access' BBC iPlayer you need to watch both. I absolutely adore both ❤️

I'm sure its more nuanced than this but Sam Altman accusing Deepseek of stealling OpenAI's IP by "distilling" (asking it questions in "unauthorised" manner) is just too funny for words! #AI #generativeAI #llm

China’s CO₂ emissions have been flat or falling for 21 months. While the West is still debating, China quietly broke the ‘you can’t grow and cut emissions’ myth. Cue the comments explaining why this ‘doesn’t count’, ‘is fake’, or ‘will reverse any second now’. 🍿 #Bettrification ⚡ #EnergyReality

I would consider my work on Earth done after writing this. (From Lessons in Magic and Disaster by @charliejane)

Ok I’ll say the thing: it was an astonishingly bad decision by previous UK governments to severely restrict onshore wind and large grid-scale solar. We would almost certainly have cheaper and cleaner power now if they hadn’t. (And a good decision by this government to end those restrictions)

This is however a lot less power than bought in the offshore wind auction. Solar has a “capacity factor” (what share of that 4.9GW capacity gets turned into actual power) of around 10% in Britain. Onshore wind is around 25%, whereas offshore is at least 35%, often up to 50% for new builds

#spacex #ai#spacex Is the Spacex/xAI merger and IPO with datacenters in space a massive IPO scam? Elon has to know that his space launch lead is going to get eroded over the next 2 years as other players get into the market and he has to know that the business case for xAi in a crowded market is not […]

"The UK government has published a first-of-its-kind framework that aims to stimulate private investment in innovative nuclear technologies – including advanced, small, and micro modular reactors – across the country, providing a clear route to market and support for credible projects to get […]

Agrivoltaics: "not just a land-sharing concept, but a systems-level solution to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.”

Cultivated meat, where is it now? This week @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by @brucefriedrich.bsky.social founder and President of @gfi.org to discuss his new book called Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food and Our Future. 🎙️Ep available Thursday.

Belgian PM Bart De Wever admits: We made dogmatic choices against nuclear energy, which was the stupidity of the century. As for the "irreversibility" of this phaseout: in all cases it’s easier, cheaper and faster to refurb a partially dismantled unit […] [Original post on greennuclear.online]

China (fastest) can build a 1GW nuclear plant in 50 mnths & Rosatom (cheapest) can build one for $5B. Masdar are building a 1GW 24/7 solar plus storage plant in UAE for $6B. The project broke ground in Oct '25 & is scheduled to be completed in '27 (25 mnths). This is the costliest & slowest […]

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115984151656671826 Sorry, not sorry.

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/01/29/moonwatt-brings-dc-coupled-passively-cooled-sodium-ion-tech-to-solar-projects/ This kind of technology is one of the reasons that sodium-ion is going to scale much faster than the people focused on relative prices of Lithium think. (It is MUCH harder to build […]

Solar-covered parking could match entire U.S. power output (~4,400 TWh/yr). Australia’s even better placed: brutal sun, vast car parks, grid-edge stress, #EV demand. Globally this is pre-cleared land + instant generation. Not tech-limited—planning-limited. Shade → power. ⚡🌞🅿️ #Bettrification #Solar

Landfill panic about wind & solar collapses once you look at displacement. Renewables create small, managed end-of-life waste. Fossils create massive, continuous waste streams — CO₂, particulates, toxics — dumped straight into the atmosphere every hour. Flows matter, not scare pics. #Bettrification

Batteries & BESS going gangbusters. Summary of Volta's 2025 Battery report: https://www.ess-news.com/2026/01/26/voltas-2025-battery-report-costs-keep-falling-boosting-bess-across-the-globe/ Online report is here: https://volta.foundation/battery-report-2025 BESS deployments increased by 104GW […]

This is very cool: https://electrek.co/2026/01/25/the-clever-way-food-trucks-are-now-using-e-bike-batteries/

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/23/india-commissions-first-merchant-battery-energy-storage-system/ Moving to Merchant PPAs means: - There is a solid enough market - lenders see the project as low risk - business and technical controls are sophisticated enough to engage directly with the […]

It's been a long night... 🙂

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-fast-track-where-china-built-on-coal-india-is-building-on-sun/ This is a good news story for India and the climate and suggests that other global south countries will do even better. #energytransition #electrotech #energy

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/01/21/noon-energy-demonstrates-100-hour-ultra-long-duration-energy-storage-system/ There are many promising LDES solutions reaching production deployment stage ATM. Here is another. #BESS #batteries #energytransition #energy

https://electrek.co/2026/01/19/germany-is-using-heated-bricks-to-replace-gas-fired-industrial-boilers/ Industrial heat is a huge opportunities for electrification in areas with high curtailment. #energytransition #energy #heat

@collectifission There you go Emil 🙂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clymgz3p3v6o #nuclear #energytransition #energy

Well well well, reality is finally gaining on Germany. Friedrich Merz: "Nuclear phase-out was a strategic mistake, we're paying the most expensive electricity and making things incredibly hard for ourselves by not having enough generating capacity" https://video.echelon.pl/w/5GmCSydjiXyf2LCtaZv9e5

It isn’t a fake. It’s been reported by numerous credible news outlets. www.whitehouse.gov/videos/sec-n...

Speculative, but interesting. https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/55343174/donut-labs-solid-state-battery-may-be-real #batteries

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/peak-energy-signs-4-75-gwh-contract-with-jupiter-power-for-industry-leading-sodium-ion-battery-storage-systems-302612467.html I missed this. It's good news. I have great hopes for Peak Energy and the impact it will have on #BESS technologies. #energy#BESS[…]

I can totally get behind this idea. “Arms for war” 🫶😁

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 Does anyone who actually plays with this stuff have a view on qhether this is a powerful evolution or simply a fever dream? It doesn't remotely address the moral, IP theft etc issues of LLMs but does it start to generate some kind […]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2026/01/07/production-ready-solid-state-battery-promises-five-minute-ev-charging/ IF Donut are not lying their socks off AND their claims for its performance are accurate AND their claims about its materials are true AND they are about to sell it in a […]

https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/china-coal-plateau-shift-power-market-control Interesting analysis of the changing role of coal in China's generation landscape away from baseload. #energy #energytransition

RE: https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/115713116435735699 This little zine got me started having fun drawing again. I'm not very good, but I'm better than I was, and way better than folx who don't draw at all.

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/01/08/hyperstrong-connects-7-4-gwh-of-energy-storage-projects-in-inner-mongolia/ "From groundbreaking to grid connection, all three projects were completed in just over five months." 7.4 GWh in 5 months! #BESS #energy #energytransition

Ouch. https://devclass.com/2026/01/08/tailwind-labs-lays-off-75-percent-of-its-engineers-thanks-to-brutal-impact-of-ai/ #ai #generativeAI

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/n8n_rce_bug/ Oops #ai

This is literally old style colonialism which the US dismantled in the mid 20th century.

Why economic realities beat political theatre. Trump's regime is killing people and breaking things and he won't get the payback he wants. Expect serious toys-out-of-the-pram moments and government subsidies to oil companies as reality bites […]

One thing people seem to forget when assessing Na-ion Vs Li-ion is operating temperatures. While LFP may still be cheaper (due to existing scale) BESS applications using Na-ion can run with passive cooling. This significantly reduces balance-of-system costs and massively reduces opex over the […]